Discovering the Maximum Size of a Volume

To find out how large a volume you can create within a disk group, use the following form of the vxassist command:

For example, to discover the maximum size RAID-5 volume with 5 columns and 2 logs that you can create within the disk group, dgrp, enter the following command:

You can use storage attributes if you want to restrict the disks that vxassist uses when creating volumes. See Creating a Volume on Specific Disks for more information.